IPad Mini (5th generation)
The fifth-generation iPad Mini is a tablet computer in the iPad Mini line, developed and marketed by Apple Inc. Announced in a press release along with the third-generation iPad Air on March 18, 2019, and released the same day. Its predecessor, the iPad Mini 4, was discontinued on the same day.
It shares a similar design to the iPad Mini 4 and features the Apple A12 Bionic chip, 64 or 256GB storage, a more modernly upgraded 7.9-inch Retina Display with support for Apple Pencil, True Tone display and Bluetooth 5.0. iFixit's teardown shows this iPad Mini is equipped with an upgraded 3GB of LPDDR4X RAM, the same as the iPhone XR.
The iPad Mini 5, iPad (9th generation) and the iPad Air 3 were the last iPad models to use a Lightning port and a home button. The iPad Mini 5 was discontinued on September 14, 2021, with the announcement of the iPad Mini (6th generation).
Features
Hardware
The dimensions of the fifth-generation iPad Mini are nearly identical to the iPad Mini 4.It was available in three color options - Silver, Space Gray and Gold.
It features the upgraded front camera system of the 7MP camera used since 2016 starting with the iPhone 7 and continued with the iPhone XS, while the rear camera system continues with the older 8MP used since the iPad Air 2 in 2014, as such, it cannot be recorded in 4K video. The iPad Mini uses a Lightning port and has a headphone jack. It has a True Tone display, which allows the LCD to adapt to ambient lighting to change its color and intensity in different environments. It also has a wide color display, which means it can shows more vibrant color compared to the previous generation. The iPad Mini 5 includes a Touch ID home button.
The Apple A12 Bionic chip powering the fifth-generation iPad Mini has a 66% higher clock speed than its predecessor, which had a 1.5 GHz dual-core processor;. The Apple A12 Bionic chip has a 2.49 GHz six-core processor. The fifth-generation iPad Mini is 3 × faster than the iPad Mini 4, and supports Apple Pencil.